Andrea Valentini
architect | MSc USI-AAM
e-mail: rea[at]andvalentini.com
nationality: Italian
languages: Italian (native), English C2, French C1.
Work experience
Architect – design team coordinator
BCMA Architectes
2018 – present | Geneva, Switzerland
Research assistant
Fondazione Archivio del Moderno [Archive for modern architecture]
2016 – 2017 (10 months) | Mendrisio, Switzerland
Intern architect
Richter Dahl Rocha & associés architectes
2013 – 2014 (9 months) | Lausanne, Switzerland
Writing
2016 – 2018 | Columnist at Cultweek.com – art & architecture web magazine | Milano, Italy
2016 – 2017 | Editor at L’Universo – monthly attachment to Corriere del Ticino | Lugano, Switzerland
2017 | Contributor at Messy Nessy – “cabinet of chic curiosities” | Paris, France
2016 | Contributor at RIAS Quarterly – member journal for the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Education and training
2015 – 2017
title of qualification: Master of Science in Architecture (MSc)
principal professors: Mario Botta, Jan De Vylder, Alessandro Balducci, Bruno Pedretti
organisation: Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM), Mendrisio, Switzerland
Summer 2016
summer school: Workshop on International Social Housing (WISH)
professors: Martino Pedrozzi, Dayra Gelabert Abreu
organisation: Universidad Tecnológica “J. A. Echeverría” (CUJAE), La Havana, Cuba
2014 –2015
exchange student: SEMP scholarship (Erasmus program, two semesters)
principal professors: Katherine Li, Nick Walker, Johnny Rodger
organisation: Mackintosh school of Architecture (MSA), Glasgow, United Kingdom
2011 – 2015
title of qualification: Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSc)
principal professors: Riccardo Blumer, Marc Collomb, Fulvio Irace, Cristoph Frank
organisation: Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM), Mendrisio, Switzerland
2006 – 2011
title of qualification: High school graduate in Classical Studies
principal subjects: Italian literature, mathematics, Ancient Greek, Latin, communication
organisation: Liceo ginnasio statale “Alessandro Volta”, Como, Italy
level ISCED: 3A
Personal skills, competences & awards
awards, conferences & exhibitions:
2022 – DETAIL Kongres | Modulbau: schnell, flexibel und trotzdem individuell, Frankfurt am Main | speaker
2018 – MACDES.18 | International congress on sustainable architecture and engineering, La Havana | speaker
2018 – Città senza pietà – Järfälla 02 | open call, Ferrara | group exhibition
2017 – New Salzburg – Between Memory and Contemporaneity | Museum der Moderne, Salzburg | group exhibition, architecture
2017 – Credit Suisse Award for Excellent Writing, Lugano | best article
2017 – Trieste città nuova | Palazzo Gopcevich, Trieste | group exhibition, architecture
2015 – MAC15 | OXO gallery, London | group exhibition, architecture
2015 – InterAct building design competition, Scotland | finalist project, architecture
2011 – Premio letterario lago di Como | 3rd price, short stories
certificates:
TOEFL score 113 – English language proficiency test
international driving licence cat. B
international waters yachtmaster licence – ICC (patente nautica italiana cat. A “senza limiti”)
cinema projectionist licence (patente italiana di cineoperatore di proiezione)
team work & problem solving:
experience of team work both in professional practice and academic context.
2020 – present | Chief architect | International working environment requiring daily communication in English, French, and Italian.
2018 – 2019 | Architecture-engineering coordinator during the construction of a university campus. Understanding and coordinating technical and aesthetic instances from users, designers, and builders. | Geneva, Switzerland.
2016 – 2017 | Editor at the University’s student newspaper. | Lugano, Switzerland.
bibliography:
Valentini, Andrea. “The Language of Sustainability: a ‘Metamodern’ Framework”, Proceedings of the 19th CCIA Congress on sustainable architecture and engineering, La Habana (2018): 899-910. | ISBN 978-959-261-585-4
Valentini, Andrea, La difesa di Alechin, L’inedito letterario, 2020. | ISBN 978-88-32162-55-4 | novel, Italian
more…
last publication:
Valentini, Andrea. “Retracing Mies’ Modernism: the Anti‐Romantic City.” In Mies van der Rohe. The Architecture of the city. Theory and Architecture, 146-153. Edited by M. Caja, M. Ferrari, M. Landsberger, A. Lorenzi, T. Monestiroli, and R. Neri. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2023. | ISBN 978-88-9387-204-1
personal interests:
sailing, piano and viola playing, repairing bicycles.
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